4D (album)
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| Studio album by Matthew Shipp | ||||
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CD |
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16 |
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59:44 |
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Peter Gordon |
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Roulette, New York City |
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4D is a jazz album by Matthew Shipp . Recorded on May 17, 2009 at Roulette , New York City, the recordings were released on Thirsty Ear in 2010 .
background
Shipp recorded this album, which was released on his 50th birthday, at the Roulette arcade in New York in front of a small group of invited guests; according to JazzTimes , it is neither a studio nor a live album.
On this solo album, Shipp played a number of original compositions as well as interpretations of standards such as " Autumn Leaves " and " What Is This Thing Called Love " as well as the folk songs " Frère Jacques ", "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" and " Greensleeves ". Part of the repertoire points to Shipp's past: he recorded titles like “Frère Jacques” or “ Prelude to a Kiss ” in 2000 on Pastoral Composure . He presented “Equilibrium” with Khan Jamal on the 2003 album of the same name. According to Shipp, the album is an attempt to "summarize his recordings from the Blue Series and convey that where I am now there is a high point that I grew out of all of them."
Track list
- Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear THI 57192.2)
- 4D 4:18
- The Crack in the Piano's Egg 5:06
- Equilibrium 3:08
- Teleportation 4:17
- Dark Matter 2:35
- Stairs 2:57
- Jazz Paradox 4:49
- Blue Web in Space 5:36
- What Is This Thing Called Love ( Cole Porter ) 3:30
- Autumn Leaves ( Jacques Prévert , Joseph Kosma ) 2:46
- Sequence and Vibration 8:00
- Brother Jacques (Traditional) 2:59
- Prelude to a Kiss ( Duke Ellington ) 3:01
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus ( Charles Crozat Converse ) 0:54
- Primal Harmonic 3:43
- Greensleeves (Traditional) 2:17
Unless otherwise stated, all compositions are by Matthew Shipp.
reception
David R. Adler said in JazzTimes that Shipp with 4D is maintaining its "avant-garde ideal ... with a creative temperament that is as restless as ever."
Thom Jurek awarded the album four stars in Allmusic and wrote: “It sums up his musical development, but above all points to new horizons. The strict physicality of his early recordings has given way to a (somewhat) more nuanced touch and flow that depends heavily on the counterpoint , the expansive harmony and the spaciousness. Dissonance still plays a necessary role in this work, as can be heard in both aspects of the album, but it is reinforced by a wonderfully complex lyric that now predominates. ” Shipp nodded at 4D with a keen sense of the story, the sums up Author, and gracefully articulate his new directions.
According to John Sharpe, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , Matthew Shipp has developed into one of the most distinctive piano stylists in the free jazz continuum, who can be recognized after just a few notes. 4D reflects the format of its previous album Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear, 2009), but with reduced instrumentation. It contains 16 pieces in total, reflecting a wide range of approaches during a program of just under an hour, "each representing an intense distillation of the pianist's ideas." As with Harmonic Disorder , but in contrast to his last two solo albums, Shipp offers alongside his own compositions also standards and pop songs, some of which are immediately recognizable, but others are treated so obliquely that they are unrecognizable. This enables an insight into how he approaches the lesser-known contours of his own pieces, in which Shipp, unencumbered by bass and drums, takes such a free approach that it is difficult to be sure whether they are out of date or preconceived.
Also in All About Jazz , Robert Iannapollo wrote that Shipp present after songs (2002), consisting of jazz, pop and gospel standards, and One (Thirsty Ear, 2006), a strong collection of original compositions with 4D a set, its first half his own compositions and the second one to the jazz repertoire. His originals are usually dense and gnarled, and although they sound like improvised, the author believes they have an intrinsic logic. "Lines cross counterpoint, sometimes collide, melodies emerge and recede."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c David R. Adler: Matthew Shipp: Song of Himself. In: JazzTimes. May 19, 2019, accessed August 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Matthew Shipp: 4D on Discogs
- ↑ Review of Thom Jurek's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 1, 2020.
- ↑ Matthew Shipp: 4D. All About Jazz, January 25, 2010, accessed August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Robert Iannapollo: Matthew Shipp: 4D. All About Jazz, February 5, 2010, accessed August 19, 2020 .